- •I. Note the pronunciation of the. Following words:
- •II. Copy and learn the following words and word combinations:
- •III, Paraphrase the following sentences. Reproduce the situation in which they occur in the text.
- •IV. Explain and expand on the following.
- •V. Translate the following into Russian:
- •VI. Suggest how the following could be expressed in Russian.
- •VII. Use the following in sentences of your own.
- •VIII. Paraphrase the following using words and word combinations from the text.
- •IX. Translate the following into English using words and word combinations from the text.
- •X. Interpret the following sentences. Pay attention to the words and word combinations, in italics.
- •XI. Explain:
- •III. Read and give literary translation of the description of the Granges' appearance. Speak of the impression you've got.
- •IV. Interpret the following sentences:
- •V. Ask 5 why-questions on the story under study.
- •VI. Agree or disagree with the following statements:
- •Answer the following questions:
- •VIII. Translate into English:
- •IV. Interpret the following sentences:
- •Answer the following questions:
- •VI. Answer the following questions:
- •I. Give English equivalents of the following words and word-combinations. Make up a situation using as many of them as you сan.
- •II. Be ready to discuss the character-sketch of Hans. Write out the sentences … and comment on them.
- •Be ready to discuss the character of Annette.
- •VI. Translate into English.
- •VII. Give the grammar commentary of the following sentences:
- •VIII. Make up an outline of the first part of the story and get ready to speak on it.
- •I. Translate into English:
- •VI. Comment on the following sentences:
- •VI. Answer the following questions:
- •I. Read the first part of the story "mackintosh" pp.87-103.
- •II. Find the following word-combinations in the text and use them
- •In your own sentences:
- •III. Speak on the topic "Walker's hard life before his arrival to the island". Use the following words and word-combinations:
- •IV. Be ready to discuss the characters of the story: their appearance, their character, their attitude to the natives, their background.
- •V. Answer the following questions:
- •I. Read the 2nd part of the story “Mackintosh" pp. 104-121
- •II. Find the following words and word-combinations in the text and use them in your own sentences:
- •III. Interpret the following sentences:
- •IV. Answer the following questions:
- •VI. Interpret the following sentences:
- •V. Comment on the passage on p.149 beginning with "I'm sure of it ..." up to "...Her influence; he is now".
- •VI. 1. What is your attitude to the things described?
- •Comment on the title of the story.
- •English Literary Terms
- •6. Detached construction
- •23. Parallel construction
- •28. Rhetorical question
XI. Explain:
1) why the author was dismayed at the thought of sharing a cabin with Mr Kelada;
2) what he found so exasperating about Mr Kelada;
why Mr Kelada was the best hated man in the ship;
what caused heated arguments at the doctor's table;
5) what turn the conversation concerning culture pearls took;
6) what role Mr Kelada played in averting a scandal;
7) what brought about a change in the author's attitude to Mr Kelada;
8) what motives Mr Kelada was guided by in behaving as he did;
9) what is the plot centered around;
10) what is the composition of the story;
11) what is the main character of the story;
12) in what way does the author prepare the reader not to like Mr Kelada;
13) what phrase repeatedly occurs in the story; on what purpose does Maugham do it;
14) what devices does the author use to draw the character-portrayal of Mr Kelada (epithets, emotionally coloured words, irony, direct characterization, indirect (speech and action) characterization). Account for the positive and negative features of Mr Kelada. What effect does the author achieve using them; how do the other people on board the ship treat him;
15. how does a generous, noble act of Mr Kelada strike you; were you prepared for it or was it a thunder bolt?
16. what is your attitude to the main character;
17) interpret the title of the story;
what is the moral of the story.
XII. Give the gist of the story.
XIII. Describe Mr Kelada's appearance and the features of his character as revealed in the story.
HOME – TASK Ill “FLOTSAM AND JETSAM”
I. Read the first part of the story "Flotsam and Jetsam” by S,Maugham.
II. Give English equivalents of the following using an English-English dictionary and use as many expressions in one situation as you can.
I. brunch (p.23)
2 at length (p.14)
3.to dive a violent start (p.14)-
4. to get rid of smb (p. 15)
5. as weak as a rat (p.15)
6. to pursuade smb (p.l6)
7. to amuse oneself (p.l6)
8. to seek one's company
9. to have the activity of mind to do smth (p.17)
10. at the longest (p.18)
11. disconcerting (p.18)
to propose to smb (p.19)
to utter a few polite words (p.21)
to all appearance (p.23)
III. Read and give literary translation of the description of the Granges' appearance. Speak of the impression you've got.
IV. Interpret the following sentences:
1. Opposite was a doorway, with a blind down, and this he guessed
led on to a veranda.(p.15)
2. He was probably manager of an estate on a cut salary, and it was not unlikely that the expense of a guest and his servant was unwelcome.(p.16)
Skelton felt that he should tell his host how it had come about that he had been forced to accept a hospitality which he could not but feel was grudgingly offered. (p. 20-21)
If you'd let me have one of your guns you'd pay for your board over and over again.(p.24)
"I'll leave you, gentleman, to your port", she said, both of men got up as she left the room. It was rather absurd, and somehow sinister, to see this social pretense in those poverty-stricken surroundings on a Borneo river.